Interesting Things

To run tests in parallel, one pivot experimented with two libraries: hydra and parallel_tests. He found that hydra was difficult to setup and eventually gave up to try parallel_tests. Setting up parallel_tests turned out to be quite simple and gave him about a 3x performance boost on an 8 core machine. Not linear with the number of cores but still significant.

Nate Clark recently released a new version of the Selenium RC gem which, among other things, fixes an issue causing tests to hang during initialization.

The RSpec =~ matcher (which asserts two arrays should contain the same elements) is still awesome.